Army Engineer Boosts Construction Projects in Afghanistan By Scaling Down
Rex Goodnight, chief of engineering with the Kansas City district of the Army Corps has come up with a method of effective construction in Afghanistan by scaling down. This scaling down process involves development of a simplified model for construction, suited for the Afghan terrain. The construction projects taken up previously had been proved totally ineffective as American building codes were used which were problematic in the Afghanistan since the implementation could not take place properly. Goodnight discovered this problem when he visited Afghanistan last year to volunteer for construction projects, and immediately came up with the scaling down plan. Rex said, "The scaling down process meant starting from scratch, and the main aim is to accommodate culturally". Reports say that progress in the region has speeded up due to Goodnight's basic scaling down designs.